How do we remove Domain Users from Builtin\Administrators while allowing us...
This is the overview of the situation. I just took over AD in an environment that is a 24/7 production environment with little to no ability to be taken down. The previous administrators did a lot of...
View ArticleSome users getting temp profile
Some users are getting temp profile and generating even log:Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you...
View ArticleThe security database on the server does not have a computer account for the...
Hi ,in one of my DC Location, users are trying to change their password by CLT+ALT+DEL, they are getting below message. earlier it was working fine.The security database on the server does not have a...
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Authentication failure in AD using web service
Hi everyone.i have got a problem with AD authentication looking forward to resolve. In my org every client computer have to join domain and users do not permit logon to other computers so on AD server...
View ArticleUsers not able to login on via local domain controller
Hello Experts,We have 4 sites on which we have local domain controllers , yesterday on one site the link broken and head office & branch site disconnected so as link goes down the connectivity...
View ArticleDomain Users Password unable to change
Hi,When users of domain controller are trying to change password below error occurs although all required policy based password...
View ArticleNFS - how do you implemant user mapping?
Windows 2008 R2 sp1the NFS client is a Windows Server 2008 R2. the NFS server is a SAN storage that supports NFS and we have enabled the NFS service and shared a folder. when i map a drive to the NFS...
View ArticleUnable to find import-module ADDSDeployment - Local Account
I meant to only install management tools for Active Directory but Server Manager keeps prompting to promote the Server. Found the answer on this forum:1 first install ADDS modüle on server,2...
View ArticleLDAP Automation error automation error -2147463155 8000500d trying to update...
AD on Win 2012 R2I'm working in an isolated sandbox with a test AD server and a Win 7 workstation running Office 2013. I am new to AD and LDAP, but quite proficient in VB and VBA (and C# for that...
View ArticleChild domain to Root domain
My company have domain controllers (Root and Child) and few Servers and Workstations. Under childe domain have 500 user Both DCs running Windows 2008 R2 Root Domain : example: test.com (DC1.test.com)...
View ArticleActive Directory Design, Implementation and Management
Team,our organisation hosted Active directory (xyz.com) and buisness application to third party DC and user who ever login and accessing application from different site through wan. Now our...
View ArticleAD Server Hardening and Patching
Dear Experts,Need some advice. I have 2 Windows 2008 DCs that are replicating with one another. Both server are running DHCP as well with different scopes serving different user segments. However, Id...
View Articlerecommendation on AD structure
Looking for some advice on how best to structure our active directory.Our company is split into a number of regional companies (e.g. europe, americas africa, asia etc) with a single (global) parent...
View ArticleInstalling gMSA on a server without AD cmdlets
I created a managed server account and gave "SERVER1$" rights to retrieve the password. I then tried to install the service account on server1, only to find that the command requires the active...
View ArticleHow many user are connected to a DC ?
Hi Experts, Good day, How can we see how many users & computers are being authenticated to a particular DC ? is there any command that can extract the current user details which are authenticated ?...
View ArticleShoul I enable the Computer Browser Service?
I have two Server 2012 DCs, a physical and a virtual. Should I enable the Computer Browser service on these DCs? I read some posts that suggest doing it but what is best practice these days?
View ArticleActive Directory Default Language can change?
Hi All,When active directory created first time, it was created Turkish Language. But this makes some different installation problem (I couldn't find problem's main reason. so thinking about first...
View ArticleCan't add 2012r2 as member server of a 2003 domain
Hi everyone and thanks in advance by your help. I have a 2003 domain (DDL and FFL = 2, previously 1) with two dc's, both are 2003, static IP (only IPv4), DNS pointing to itself on each one. When a try...
View Article2012 Domain controller with same name
Hi,i am getting ready to introduce a new 2012 domain controller, i want to keep the same name and ip for dns and incase some applications are using the name of the server instead of the FQDN for ad...
View ArticleUsing CA of another forest - in 2 way trust
Our AD is as - 2 forests A and B. Under Forest A I have 1 tree domain A1. There is 2 way trust forest between A and B.There exists a Enterprise root CA in Forest A and a Subordinate CA in tree domain...
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